A Theatre Seating Plan

How to use Excel to create a seating plan and ticket sales model

Developing the seating plan

We are learning today (WALT)To name a range of cells and use the COUNTIF function to count how many seats are sold

To calculate income from seat sales

An example…

Using Excel

Seating Plan :We need to

design a seating plan using MS Excel spreadsheet software

The Model

Sales Model :We need to

design a model for calculating income from ticket sales

This lesson…

Learn how to name a range of cells Learn how to use the COUNTIF function Calculate sales

Demonstration – named range

This movie will show you how to name the range of cells that makes up your seating plan

Demonstration - countif

This movie will show you how to use the COUNTIF function in a formula to calculate how many seats are sold

Extension 1…

Conditional formatting to change the seats that have been sold to a different colour so that they stand out

Extension 2…

Create an if formula that will automatically type the text SOLD OUT or AVAILABLE into the cell

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